Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do - Paperback

by Shoya Zichy (Author), Ann Bidou (With)

When you find the career that fits your personality, you'll discover that the work hours you once begrudged with every fiber of your being now bring you tremendous satisfaction and success.

Is your job just a way to pay the bills? Are you a drudge Monday through Friday only so you can be more yourself on Saturday? It doesn't have to be this way! Never before in history has there been such an eclectic variety of money-making opportunities and cutting-edge vocations than there are in today's marketplace. There is no need to settle!

Career Match contains the ten-minute self-assessment that can change your life. After a simple quiz to determine your personality style, turn to the corresponding chapter that reads as if it was written just for you and discover what ideal work options there are for you.

In this invaluable resource for all personalities, you will learn how to:

• Identify career choices that will exhilarate you
• Recognize the type of work environment and boss you need to thrive
• Learn to leverage your natural strengths
• Customize and speed your job search

This second edition has been updated to include trending new careers in areas such as gaming, web design, alternative energy, cybersecurity, food science, and more. Whether you are a recent graduate looking for direction or a burned-out veteran seeking new inspiration, Career Match will help you match who you are with what you're meant to do--with a success rate vastly greater than that of your typical match maker!

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What should I do with my life? It's one of the biggest questions we face, and one that's so easy to get wrong.

Career Match helps you find the best fit for your skills, interests, and core personality -- the secret to a truly satisfying professional life. Whether you're starting a job search, selecting a course of study, or hoping to switch out of a career that never clicked, just one simple quiz points you in the right direction. Derived from popular Jungian and Temperament models but focused specifically on careers, the book's 10-minute assessment and original Color Q model place you in one of 16 personality groups. For most users, the picture that emerges is uncannily accurate--illuminating their strengths and weaknesses, attractive career prospects, ideal workplaces and bosses, tailored interviewing tips, and more. Expanding on the first edition, case studies of 57 professionals and well-known personal-ities add depth and detail to the descriptions of personality types. This second edition also includes dozens of new career options, including gaming, web design, alternative energy, cybersecurity, food science, robotics, biomedical engineering, oceanography, and computer simulation. By matching who you are with what you're meant to do, this unconventional and insightful career guide puts you on the path to greater fulfillment and success. SHOYA ZICHY is a respected career coach and past president of APTNYC, the Myers-Briggs Association of New York. Her award-winning Color Q personality system has helped hundreds of thousands worldwide and been featured in Fortune, Barron's, USA Today, and on CNN. She is the author of Personality Power. ANN BIDOU is the coauthor of Personality Power and Your Own Terms.

Author Biography

Shoya Zichy is a respected career coach and past president of the Myers-Briggs Association of New York. Her Color Q personality system has helped hundreds of thousands worldwide and been featured in Fortune, Barron's, USA Today, and on CNN. Ann Bidou is the coauthor of Personality Power and Your Own Terms.